Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call

Posted by zoe
Jan 8, 2016 at 02:58 PM

Here’s the setup that I’ve spent a number of months refining.

Home and office (Windows desktops):

- Emacs with the following modes/packages:
—org-mode for project and todo management
—Deft for nvAlt-style plaintext file browsing.
—helm/helm-swoop for searching within the body of files
—markdown-mode for writing & copyediting

Mobile (iPhone 5):

- Editorial for browsing and editing .org and .md files

All these files are kept in Dropbox. Rather than one giant org-mode outline file, I maintain lots of individual .org files, one for each project or list. This is because navigating a long text file on iOS is impractical and frustrating. All the .org files are automatically added to the agenda. This allows me to get a complete todo list for absolutely everything using the org-agenda function.

I am really liking org’s ability to extract these TODO entries from many files and aggregate them. It lets me keep projects compartmentalized in their own files, but doesn’t prevent me from getting the 20,000 foot view when I need it.